Stolen content

HubPages recently alerted me to a blog which had stolen my Hub about stiff necks

(http://)healthiswealth.healthfreakmommy.com

I managed to find an email address for the blog, emailed her a notice and got a genuine-sounding apology straight back, with an assurance she would cut down the amount quoted and include a link to my original Hub.

I've been trying to check today, but I can't even get on the site - I keep getting booted off. Is it possible she could have blocked me somehow, or is it just coincidence?

BTW she has a lot of articles quoted on there, which I'm sure aren't hers.

It worked fine for me, there is attribution now BUT there's so much quoted! She found your information very helpful and worth sharing but this way, no one needs to go to your hub so no views or clicks for you. Not fair. What SHOULD she do? I think she could mention a thing or two and then someone will just have to go to your hub for the info.

She did end up putting a link to your hub, however it is not just simply an excerpt she quoted , but half your article. If she did not put a link to your article the first time around with the right intent than it is plainly plaigarism. Since half your article is there rather than an excerpt to entice them to check your actual hub, there would be no need for them to click the link. I could understand an excerpt or quote but this is more than that. I'd report this one . Even though the site looks decently maintained does not mean she didn't plagairise from others too. Take action if you feel the link was more than just quoting an excerpt and leaves the reader not needing to visit your article. Its up to you if you feel the apolgy and uplink was sincere or just to cover her bases from any action against her. The fact you are now blocked seems more than just coincidence to me. Stealing a whole half of an article is just rude! It's cool that Hubpages is the one who notified you, that means their looking out for publishers and revenues closely.

Marisa, I left her a comment myself saying that "an excerpt with link should only be used to enhance one of her OWN articles and not be used as the article itself" hope you don't mind but that was just plain stealing so I had to.

I know, Eric - I'm just remembering some comments Misha and Mark made on an old thread. From memory, they both felt that it was better to leave the article and get the benefit of the backlink. I'm taking it you don't agree - or do you feel I should do something on principle?

Marisa, you really ought to do something about this. I would -- without question.I've read all the comments here, and visited that Blog.I'm going back there now to leave a comment -- this person should know how many people are standing behind you.

Marisa, view the source code and just look for do follow or nofollw in the code, like misha suggested.. If its nofollow than you might as well report since you would not be getting any search rank advantage.. only traffic.. and as I said your whole articles there so they will have no need to click the link to your hub.. wheres the benefit in that...?

here i copied it from the source for ya and thers no dofollow or nofollow attribute so not sure but I think its dofollow by default: <a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/stiff-neck-shoulder">www.hubpages.com/hub/stiff-neck-shoulder</a>:</p>

this is what the code looked like inside the paragraph not too sure what the double dots are for before the paragraph tag

A few months ago I was notified that someone had copied my hub. When I checked I also saw a link to my hub. I haven't got around to doing anything and I've actually made quite a few sales from it and it's getting really good traffic.

I'll probably just rewrite the hub - and keep the link.

But I understand that you find it very upsetting and wanting to act on principle as well. I'd say it's your choice.

I now know how these a$$holes get away with doing articles for $1 each on freelance sites. They steal from us spin it in a software and sell as thier own. found some of mine and they removed it as soon as I threatened reporting them

reporting back... she did cut WAAAy down on the article and left the statement ...and if youd like to read the read the rest of the article you can do so by clicking http//: hubp....etc. so it looks more like a long excerpt but is still a good quarter of the article. Its up to you on how you feel at this point since she complied with you... somewhat!

Marissa that sucks, you should file an Infringement notice with the blog ISP and also with Google. Ii is a pain in the watoosy having to do it considering it's your article but...It's beyond me why anyone thinks that they should be able to get away with theft.

I agree with Zsuzsy! I know we all love the possibility of getting those prized backlinks. However, if she has copied your work word for word that is plagiarism. Google will flag one or both your sites for that which in turn could reduce your score for that hub and any other hubs that she copies. Not worth the backlink to me!

Ohhhhh lovely, another copy artist. I’d file for mine as there’s no backlink so I'm a bit ticked off ... wouldn’t have minded so much if there was one, cheeky swine. Anyway can't find a single place to file anything to. Weird site

The links are hubs I found there, copied in full ... there’s a load more so if you find anything that’s yours, the choice is yours, to file or not.

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